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Launching a Global Events Course — Best OER Resources?

Laura Massa

Next year I will be teaching a new course focused on global events and the news, and I would love to learn from you how to best use the OER platform resources to teach about bias, accuracy, reliability, and perspective while also identifying connections between current events and broader historical and global trends.

Also, do you have any recommendations on reliable databases, podcasts, websites or multimedia resources appropriate for high school students?     

  • That sounds like an amazing and well needed course but also so difficult to plan for! I try to have students use websites like allsides to check for bias in the news. But there are so many similar websites out there - if anyone has recommendations please let me know!

    I tend to use Population Reference Bureau for data on countries/regions. I have a copy of the World Population Data Sheet hanging in my classroom for students to reference when needed, but the website itself has a ton of information and articles.

  • in reply to Andrea Wong

    This video might also be a great introduction to show how an event in one location can create a ripple effect all over the world. So often students question why we should care about events in other parts of the world. This does a great job of explaining the direct impact.

  • in reply to Andrea Wong

    Thank you so much  for these resources, particularly Allsides as it is exaclty what I intend to present it to my students. 

    I just returned from my AP reading and we were given many resources to use in the classroom. I will share them with the community on a new post because it is worth it. 

  •  You might find some (or all) of the resources from the Digital Inquiry Group's Civic Online Reasoning curriculum to be useful. They center their lessons around three main questions: 1) Who's behind the information?, 2) What's the evidence?, and 3) What do other sources say?

    I also ran into folks from the News Literacy Project at a conference a little while back. Seems like they have some good stuff, but I haven't used it myself.

  • in reply to Christopher Barber

      these resources are wonderful! Thank you immensely for your help in this. When I proposed the course I had some preliminary ideas on how to implement an elective course like this, but the ones you added here are phenomenal. I will work on this course during the summer. 

    I cannot express how much I appreciate the wisdom of this community. There is no better place to find thoughtful advise than the OER!. PrayThumbsup